Effective punishment...

I am quite often late though I dislike being late.
If there is anything I would like to get rid of, it would be "being late".
I always hope that it would not be one day too LATE to change the bad habit of being late.
Somehow I was too late...
today I visited the dentist, I ended up late again though I could have made it on time, 10 minutes late...usually no big deal, well, they were not happy when they saw me showing up, but they decided to put up with me and started preparing for the root implant, of course, anesthetics was injected in the first minute, then the doctor started to think, and decided to take a photo to see what went wrong with the tooth, and the conclusion was, "let the dog sleep." No operation needed. Hmmmm, I nodded my head as if it was a piece of good news and that I was happy about it. Economist holds that sunk cost is sunk anyway. But I was feeling the numbness of the anesthetics in my right cheek. I somehow wish I could have that operation for not ended up with having a free anesthetics for nothing.
I know somehow that if the doctor would have had that 10 more minutes, perhaps he would ask me the questions and check the photo before injecting the monster... but sorry, too late! He was in the end apologizing sincerely and his long face in the first minute turned into this most amiable smile and i know that he is sorry about my 3 hours of suffering from that moment on, but it did happen.
I will never forget this lesson...an expensive lesson with only being 10 minutes late...10:10 instead of 10...what a day!